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Dec. 7, 2014

famulus \FAM-yuh-luhs\ noun 1. a servant or attendant, especially of a scholar or a magician. Quotes Pour, pour yet, / My Famulus — pour with free arm-sweep still, / And when the wine is running o'er the brim, / Sparkling with golden bubbles in the sun, / I will stoop down and drink the full great draught… -- Robert Williams Buchanan, The Drama of Kings, 1871 Origin Famulus entered English in the 1830s from the Latin word of the same spelling meaning "servant, slave."

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